All Cab Drivers Look Alike: The Science of Changing Perception Through Experience

by Felice L Bedford

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Author: Felice L Bedford

Publisher: Tivoli Press

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ISBN 10: 0615734715
ISBN 13: 978-0615734712

Actor Alan Alda comments: I haven’t had a chance to actually read your book yet, but it looks fascinating. Congratulations"

The field of Perceptual Learning is about how experience changes how you see, hear, feel, smell, and taste the world around you. Ever wonder why people from other races all look alike? Do you know someone who always seems to get lost? Are you good or bad at wine-tasting? X-ray reading? All of these involve perceptual learning. Dr. Felice L. Bedford's one-of-a-kind book presents the first single framework for understanding all of perceptual learning.

Included is Dr. Bedford's in-the-news work on why the mind can heal the body using visual imagery and mindfulness meditation. Other topics of popular interest concern how it is not racist to have trouble with other-race faces, what’s really going on during America's Got Talent ventriloquist shows (Hint: it's NOT throwing the voice), and dramatic failures of perception. We are asked to think hard about mind-bending topics such as distorting your perception of time. The appendix contains a special tutorial on testing and improving perceptual abilities. Experts in the field will recognize “prism adaptation”, Eleanor Gibson’s perceptual learning, and the “McCollough Effect”, which are also all integrated into a single overarching new theory.
380 pages, 71 illustrations.

“Bedford’s book is for anyone interested in their own six senses (yes, six, according to Dr. Bedford, the immune system is the forgotten modality) and for students and colleagues alike. This is also an opinionated work including critiques of experiments in the scientific literature. Anecdotes on professional acquaintances provide a personal touch. Our favorite sentence: ‘Perception is lazy”” Press release.

”Your book was very inspirational and I kept putting it down to jot down ideas." Dr. Mark S. Rider, Clinical Psychologist, Texas

"I have finished your book and found it very interesting and impressive" Dr. William H. Ittelson, professor and author

"I read the book (Cab Drivers), really loved it! I especially like how your tone in the book is casual, a few times I laughed out loud." Dr. Sabrina Richardson, University of California, Riverside

“I think the book must be really read and can't be skimmed for content, but that's what makes a book great, at least in my opinion!” Alex Auerbach, student

This book has been specially priced to also be affordable to students.
New on Kindle for 2019!

All Cab Drivers Look Alike: The Science of Changing Perception Through Experience

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